Tag Archives: Catholic Church

Liturgical colours and the rhythm of the Christian year

Posted on 13/10/2022 by Scott Anderson

One of my hopes for the Ordinariate in the UK is that it would introduce into the Catholic Church something of the Liturgical Revival which overtook the Church of England from the end of the 19th century until the 1960’s. … Continue reading →

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Pope Francis and the Extraordinary Form

Posted on 02/08/2021 by Scott Anderson

Like many Catholics I was at first taken aback by the Pope’s recent Motu Proprio, Traditionis Custodes – On the Use of the Roman Liturgy Prior to the Reform of 1970. I had been aware of problems around the use of the … Continue reading →

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Renewing the Catholic Parish

Posted on 19/07/2021 by Scott Anderson

In 2009 a group of Anglo-Catholic clergy in the Diocese of London, encouraged by the then Bishop of Fulham, now Monsignor John Broadhurst, met to discuss a plan for parish renewal. I have kept the aide mémoire circulated after their … Continue reading →

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New French Missal

Posted on 28/06/2021 by Scott Anderson

At long last the Catholic Church in France (and the other francophone countries) is to have its new translation of the Missal, which comes into use on Advent Sunday 2021. At last I shall not be the only priest in … Continue reading →

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Communion on the tongue – why the controversy?

Posted on 23/06/2021 by Scott Anderson

Last Sunday I was confronted at the moment of Holy Communion by a young woman insisting on receiving the consecrated host on the tongue. Currently this is not permitted in France, as part of the COVID precautions. In the liturgical … Continue reading →

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(Anglo) Catholic Renewal – Loughborough & Caister

Posted on 01/05/2021 by Scott Anderson

A friend of mine has been reading ‘Catholics in Crisis’ by Francis Penhale. Written in 1986 it was part of a Mowbray’s series on the Church of England. (At one time I had another book in the same series, ‘Evangelicals … Continue reading →

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Were we really Catholics?

Posted on 29/03/2021 by Scott Anderson

Soon after the vote in the General Synod of the Church of England in 1992 to ordain women to the priesthood, a colleague of mine expressed his sense of anger: “Once I was a bitter Catholic; now I am just … Continue reading →

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Holy Mass from the Divine Worship Missal (the background)

Posted on 29/04/2020 by Scott Anderson

    I imagine that many of us during the confinement will have set ourselves a task or project. I have several, including learning to say the Ordinariate Use of the Mass. Perhaps you are surprised by this, but I … Continue reading →

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Making – and keeping – new Catholics

Posted on 04/06/2016 by Scott Anderson

A new report by the Catholic Research Forum (an initiative of the Benedict XVI centre at St Mary’s University, Twickenham) has something to tell us about evangelisation. 7.7 per cent of the 3.8 million Catholics in the UK are ‘converts’ … Continue reading →

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Please don’t try and wear the burse on your head

Posted on 30/09/2015 by Scott Anderson

Period drama nowadays goes to extreme lengths to ensure accuracy. In every area, that is, save the ecclesiastical. There, I’m afraid, one is still likely to see a scene from a Jane Austen novel with the clergyman conducting a funeral … Continue reading →

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